[Mike20403]

To be fair, how many states, rivers, lakes, towns, etc. are based on Native terminology? I know what you mean about Native leaders not being represented, and to show my ignorance I couldn’t think of an example from this century. Black Civil Rights happened on the radio, TV, etc. Plus there are more blacks to sway as voters/consumers than most other minorities. The media responds to money. It’s a function of population size and level of awareness, and the immediacy of related race events. Was there anything like MLK that happened in the Native populous recently? We’d never know . . . On the flipside, movies like Dances with Wolves paint a realistic and brutal picture of what happened during Western expansion. As a Caucasion male, my steady diet of guilt has included plenty of accounts like this one. Last point: Atlanta has a very high proportion of African Americans. When I lived in a 99 percent black apartment building in Detroit, I never heard much about ‘Friends’ re-runs or the new Phish CD. So please don’t think the Native story is forgotten.

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Name : Mike20403, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 25, City : Warren, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : editor, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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